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| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Capitol (the second State Capitol, the first in Madison). Illustration from the American Encyclopedia, Columbus, 1859. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Large group at Syttende Mai celebration. Group posing with what may be the national and merchant flag of Norway flag. A number of people are holding croque... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., for his independent, third-party candidacy for the Presidency in 1924. La Follette is outdoors reading,... |
| Date: | 05 26 1928 |
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| Description: | A man on a Fairway tractor with a mower waits while a golfer tees off at a golf course. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Park in Hartford, Connecticut. View of a small portion of the park's property bordered by plants. The original caption describes it as "well-plan... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting outdoors at a spinning wheel, turning a large pile of wool in the foreground into yarn. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A man is leaning on the passenger side of an automobile marked: "Kankakee County Soil and Crop Improvement Association." Another man is sitting inside. The... |
| Date: | 06 1925 |
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| Description: | A water supply tank standing atop what appears to be a shed in the back of a farmhouse. A weather vane is at the top of the water tank. |
| Date: | 10 04 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress using an axe to split a log into firewood. A hand-operated washing machine is standing in the yard of a farmhouse in the background... |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | A boy is sitting on a wooden chair placed on top of an outdoor wooden bench. A toy dog with wheels on its legs is on the bench beside him. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and wide-brimmed hat is emptying water from one pail into another beside a hand-cranked well. The photograph was taken on the John ... |
| Date: | 08 1895 |
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| Description: | A man poses with his four-year-old Lombard blue plum tree in his fruit orchard in Sawyer, near Door County. The image of the man appears to be composited i... |
| Date: | 08 1985 |
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| Description: | A negative version of Blue Plum Tree, illustrating the staining and composite nature of the original negative. |
| Date: | 08 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Dinner menu from the R.M.S. Mauretania, with a watercolor illustration of a thatched-roof cottage and a large tree near a bend in the road. Other ho... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hobbins smile at one another and hold hands as a full-length wedding portrait is taken. She is standing, and he is sitting in a chair on... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Ernst Schmidt (1893-1977) sits in front of a homemade teepee wearing an elaborate costume of feathers and furs. He is holding a club in his right hand. |
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| Description: | View across ice towards a man identified as Irving Brown sitting in an ice boat on a lake. Large houses are in the background along the shoreline. |
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| Description: | Oval-framed studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman and man posing sitting together. The woman is sitting on the arm of the chair, and is... |
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